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Responsibilities:
- Keep trajectory reads fast at enterprise scale, with views built as events are written.
- Keep verdicts fast when many actions arrive on one trajectory at once.
- Ship schema changes that never take production down, including for customers running Sondera themselves.
Qualifications:
- Designed and run a write-heavy data system in production, owning its schema and service.
- Deep knowledge of Postgres: query plans, indexes, locking, WAL, and migrations.
- Write production code in your best systems language.
Our Stack:
- Rust for verdict services, Python for AI, TypeScript for web apps.
- Policy compiles to a formal language, platform runs in Google Cloud and customer infrastructure.
Why Sondera:
- Study open problems in AI agent governance, turning rules into policy and enforcing at runtime.
- Build with coding agents and govern them with it, settling technical disagreements with evidence.
- Remote work with async collaboration, meeting in person three times a year.
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Sondera works on the open problem of semantic integrity for AI agents, ensuring every action carries out what an authorized person meant by autoformalizing plain language rules into policy. Our small team has built products at Cylance, Databricks, and other security companies, backed by notable venture firms.